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Re: Use of STOP inside an IF statement [message #60861]

Wed, 18 June 2008 11:19

Jeremy Bailin
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Registered: April 2008

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On Jun 17, 1:46 pm, Benjamin.R.Ev...@gmail.com wrote:
> I currently have:
>
> spawn, 'mkdir '+output_dir, message
> IF ( string(message) ) then begin
> print, message
> stop
> ENDIF
>
> But the stop command will not work inside the IF statment but it will
> work
> outside the IF statment. I need it to be inside the IF statement so
> that the program
> stops if a message is printed out.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Ben

Why don't you just use the MESSAGE procedure, since it is virtually
the same thing as a PRINT followed by a STOP?

-Jeremy.

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		Re: Use of STOP inside an IF statement By: Jeremy Bailin on Wed, 18 June 2008 11:19
		Re: Use of STOP inside an IF statement By: Brian Larsen on Tue, 17 June 2008 14:56
		Re: Use of STOP inside an IF statement By: Chris[5] on Tue, 17 June 2008 11:16
		Re: Use of STOP inside an IF statement By: Brian Larsen on Tue, 17 June 2008 11:01
		Re: Use of STOP inside an IF statement By: David Fanning on Tue, 17 June 2008 10:54

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